The Assassination of MLK and How It Changed America w/Dr. Gerald Horne

Dr. Gerald Horne is the author of more than thirty books and one hundred scholarly articles and reviews. Dr. Horne holds the Moores Professorship of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston. On this podcast we cover the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr - what happened and how did it impact Black America in particular and the U.S. broadly.
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[@manueldavidson1398]

Outstanding interview!! Dr. Gerald Horne is an absolute treasure.

[@LeeeerrrroooyJennnnnkins]

Great interview, thanks

[@poloniuswonk]

The Invisible Hand!

[@poloniuswonk]

We were told to avoid HBCUs and to major in concrete subjects. But the first thing they tell a Black engineer is to get an MBA, which delays marriage, family planning, and home ownership.

[@walter1932]

Who told us to avoid HBCU’s? Most of us acquire bachelor degrees from HBCU’s. Self hatred is alive & well in the remnants of our community.

[@komiczar]

Even it it is true, what does it indicate about individual only who does what is told them, with blindly obeying and
without questioning?
What does it sa about the schooling the person received?
Who has the responsibility to investigate, examine, and analyze the validity of the imparted information?

[@AlLindsay]

🙏🏿🌹 YHVH...be with You!!! 🌹🙏🏿

[@poloniuswonk]

Adam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations, which established division of labor and, ultimately, mass production. What happened to the mass decentralization and customization of production?

[@tommystovall6153]

Whom am i, i should say that I am just an grain of sand of the beach, at the mercy of the waves of the ocean, wind, and the movements of this great thing called life, but with out me and countless others there will be no beach .

[@poloniuswonk]

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[@user-up6wj2gh7u]

The civil rights movement was a moral movement. It seems that after King was assassinated morality was deemphasized in the black community.